Since the success of the Manhattan project, there has been an argument for open technological sharing, differentiated from past needs by the inherent danger of the technology. Niels Bohr, a famous physicist, petitioned both Roosevelt and Churchill and wrote an open letter to the UN describing this. It is brief and you can read it here:
http://www.atomicarchive.com/...s/Deterrence/BohrUN.shtml

Propiganda is a necessary tool in combating the ideas of Bohr and those who likewise share his will to proliferate modern technologies worldwide. If you couple this idea with the fact that most of the world's wealth lies not in physical ownership but rather in intagibles, propiganda supporting the establishment is all the more necessary.